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Nature Physics 2, 503 - 504 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys376

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Optical physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

Josephson plasmons: The new wave

Joe Orenstein1

  1. Joe Orenstein is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300 and the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. e-mail: JWOrenstein@lbl.gov


Electromagnetic waves below the plasma frequency usually reflect off a metal. A theory now suggests that a nonlinear Josephson plasma wave — an excitation in an anisotropic superconductor — can propagate below the plasma frequency.

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